On 5/27/07, Grant McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I've had a question about locale support from a user of my SSHMenu > applet. It turns out it's really a question about gnome-terminal's > locale handling. > > Normally, this user works in the pl_PL.UTF-8 locale. Occasionally, he > needs to connect to an older server that doesn't support UTF-8 locales > so he needs to use an ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) locale instead. Here's an > example shell script: > > #!/bin/sh > LC_ALL=pl_PL gnome-terminal > > By placing that shell script on the desktop and double-clicking it, the > user can get a terminal window that supports Latin-2. He can now SSH to > the server and everything works as expected, except ... > > If a second gnome-terminal window is started by selecting "Terminal" > from the main GNOME menu (ie: not by running the script above), the new > terminal window also uses the Latin-2 locale. > > It seems that because gnome-terminal uses one process to manage all > terminal windows, the locale of the first window launched will 'win' and > that locale will be applied to all other windows. > > Is there any way to work around this behaviour? It would seem desirable > for example to be able to specify a locale in a terminal profile. > > Any suggestions or workarounds?
you might try the --diable-factory commandline option as a workaround -- jonner _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
